UK Coaching
Mark Scott has extensive experience in sports development and education, currently serving as Development Lead Officer for Modern Learning at UK Coaching since August 2017. Previously, Mark held various roles at The Football Association, including Affiliate Tutor and Coach Mentor, from September 2014 to December 2021. An accomplished professional, Mark worked as Non Examined Assessment Advisor and Practical Moderator for A level PE at AQA from September 2008 to September 2017 and was Head of Sport/Teacher of A level Physical Education at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington, from January 2001 to July 2017. Additional coaching roles include Assistant Coach for the English Colleges Football Association and Academy Coach at Middlesbrough F.C. Early in the career, Mark served as Sports Development Officer at Hartlepool Borough Council and played professionally for Norwich City Football Club. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sport Science from Teesside University.
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We are UK Coaching. Through our commitment to people, passion and progress, we’re taking the lead in coaching excellence. Our mission is to put coaching at the heart of physical activity and sport. Coaching is in our DNA. For more than 30 years, alongside our partners, we have provided the coaching workforce with the skills and knowledge they need to make a positive difference. We’ve also supported our partners to do the same. We’re now widening our scope to do this on a broader scale. How? By adopting a wider definition of coaching and extending our reach into new markets where great coaching makes a difference every day. We’re here to: * Raise the profile of coaching so that it is recognised for the wider benefits it brings to society and individuals. * Help our partners create coaching systems to deliver a fit for purpose workforce that better reflects society. * Make coaching easier to get into and stay involved in. * Supply the coaching workforce with the information they need to be participant focused. * Be a hub of research excellence for coaching * Help coaches feel better connected, more knowledgeable and confident. * Be central to the sport and physical activity landscape. We’ll run an effective and efficient organisation. * Encourage technology to enable coaches and coaching. In England, we support National Governing Bodies of Sport and County Sports Partnerships as well as many other organisations across the sport and physical activity landscape. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, we work with the three Home Country Sports Councils.